Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up :... Memoirs of a Water Drinker - Strona 73autor: William Dunlap - 1837Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - Liczba stron: 692
...Introduction (page 209), comments: Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...hath power to say 'Behold! — The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA 1 50 If then true lovers have been... | |
| Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - Liczba stron: 284
...as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 145 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth;...man hath power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1996 - Liczba stron: 1290
...a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 1 hat, t 3 do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. HEKMIA. If, then, true lovers have been... | |
| Kitty Ferguson - 1998 - Liczba stron: 232
...when we've become more familiar with conditions around this particular black hole. 5 Crossing the bar And ere a man hath power to say, 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream As a way of previewing what will happen... | |
| Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - Liczba stron: 520
...self-apprehension: both situations yield an insight that is "momentany as a sound, / Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, / Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...hath power to say 'Behold!' / The jaws of darkness do devour it up: / So quick bright things come to confusion" (lll43-49). No sooner do we figure the... | |
| Uwe Timm - 1998 - Liczba stron: 300
...Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a splee, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say "Behold!", The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night 's... | |
| Nora Roberts - 2001 - Liczba stron: 372
...all my sisters, not of blood but of the heart. There 's the magic. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Prologue THREE SISTERS... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - Liczba stron: 134
...sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, 145 Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That...hath power to say 'Behold!', The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. 150-1 If then . . . destiny-, if true lovers... | |
| G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - Liczba stron: 368
...death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...hath power to say, 'Behold !' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion, (ii 141) 'Confusion': a pure Macbeth idea.... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2002 - Liczba stron: 416
...Index, Index B, vi, 'Miscellaneous'; The Sovereign Flower, 317). Love, in thought or act, may be called Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That,...hath power to say, 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, i, i, 145) Or as Juliet has it: I have no joy of this... | |
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